The Disease Profile of Texas Prison Inmates

Baillargeon, Jacques; Black, Sandra A.; Pulvino, John; Dunn, Karen

doi:10.1016/s1047-2797(99)00033-2

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“…Studies on inmate health have focused on disease prevalence [7][8][9] and mortality, [10][11][12]31 in contrast to health screening and services. Correctional populations have been excluded from large, national health surveys, such as the National Health Interview Survey and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey.…”

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“…Epidemiologic studies have confirmed that jail and prison inmates have a higher burden of chronic diseases such as hypertension, asthma, and cervical cancer than the general population, even after adjustment for known confounders such as age. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12] Furthermore, inmates are particularly at risk for substance use disorders, psychiatric disorders, victimization, and infectious diseases, including hepatitis C, HIV, and tuberculosis. 8,9,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Despite the prevalence of poor health status among both minorities and inmates, the effect of criminal justice involvement on population health disparities has been largely overlooked in research on population health disparities.…”

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Health Disparities and the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Further Research and Action

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Although racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be involved with the criminal justice system than whites in the USA, critical scientific gaps exist in our understanding of the relationship between the criminal justice system and the persistence of racial/ethnic health disparities. Individuals engaged with the criminal justice system are at risk for poor health outcomes. Furthermore, criminal justice involvement may have direct or indirect effects on health and health care. Racial/ethnic health disparities may be exacerbated or mitigated at several stages of the criminal justice system. Understanding and addressing the health of individuals involved in the criminal justice system is one component of a comprehensive strategy to reduce population health disparities and improve the health of our urban communities.

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Health Disparities and the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Further Research and Action

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“…While earlier researches and reviews on this issue have generally concluded that major psychiatric disorders, and especially psychoses, were no more frequent in prison samples than in the general populations, (Guze, 1976;Coid, 1984), more recent studies since 1990 have reported clearly higher prevalence rates in prison populations mainly for substance abuse, psychotic disorders and mood disorders on Axis I and for antisocial personality disorder on Axis II of the DSM IV (Coté & Hodgins, 1990;Herrman, McGorry, Mills, & Singh, 1991;Koenig, Johnson, Bellard, Denker, & Frenlon, 1995;Brooke, Taylor, Gunn, & Maden, 1996;Jordan, Schlenger, Fairbank, & Caddell, 1996;Taylor, Leese, Williams, Butwell, Daly, & Larkin, 1998;Baillargeon, Black, Pulvino, & Dunn, 2000;Gunn, 2000;Hartvig & Ostberg, 2004). This discrepancy in the results may be due to a number of factors such as different inclusion criteria, selection bias, heterogeneous diagnostic procedures, lack of operational diagnostic criteria and insufficient sample sizes (Teplin, Abram, & McClelland, 1996;Andersen, 2004).…”

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Mental disorders and request for psychiatric intervention in an Italian local jail

Zoccali

Muscatello

Bruno

et al. 2008

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

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The issue of the prevalence of psychiatric illnesses in Italian prison samples has not received the same attention paid at an international level. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders diagnosed according to DSM-III-R criteria among an Italian prisoner population, and to examine prisoners' requests for psychiatric intervention in relationship to the presence or absence of different psychiatric disorders. One hundred fortytwo Italian male subjects from the Casa Circondariale of Messina, Italy, were evaluated using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Non-Patient Version -SCID I and SCID II. A very high rate of disorders was found among inmates: 85.2% (n = 121) of the sample were affected by a psychiatric disorder. Of the total sample, 51.4% (n = 73) had requested psychiatric treatment during detention. The detection, diagnosis and treatment of the mentally ill prisoners is a primary goal for a better organization of services and prison settings; screening procedures for evaluating the presence of psychiatric disorders, with the aim to promote differential strategies for the care and rehabilitation of inmates, are needed.

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“…Mental illness, cardiovascular conditions, asthma, epilepsy, and oral diseases are among the most frequently reported health conditions in this population group. [1][2][3][4][5] Blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections are also prevalent among prisoners. [6][7][8] Many inmates report engaging in risk behaviours likely to be detrimental to health such as smoking, injecting drug use, unsafe tattooing, and harmful consumption of alcohol.…”

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The self‐reported health status of prisoners in New South Wales

Butler¹,

Kariminia²,

Lévy³

et al. 2004

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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Objective: To describe the physical health of the New South Wales prisoner population. Design:Cross-sectional random sample of adult men and women prisoners. Similarly, methadone maintenance was more common among women than men (39% vs. 13%; p<0.001). Conclusion:Men and women prisoners in NSW have multiple chronic health conditions. While not desirable, incarceration presents an opportunity to initiate treatment to improve the health of this disadvantaged group.

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The Disease Profile of Texas Prison Inmates

Cited by 149 publications

References 15 publications

Health Disparities and the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Further Research and Action

Health Disparities and the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Further Research and Action

Mental disorders and request for psychiatric intervention in an Italian local jail

The self‐reported health status of prisoners in New South Wales

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